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Australia launches social media ban for under 16s

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Australia launches social media ban for under 16s
In Australia children under the age of 16 will no longer be allowed to have social media accounts.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Meet Madagascar’s Gen-Z movement that toppled a government

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Meet Madagascar’s Gen-Z movement that toppled a government
Filmmaker Caroline Brenière went to Madagascar where the Gen Z movement has toppled the government to find out what they’re doing now.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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‘Lines were crossed’ by Trump’s Europe criticism – former EU ambassador

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‘Lines were crossed’ by Trump’s Europe criticism – former EU ambassador
We speak to the former EU Ambassador to the US, João Vale de Almeida, about President Trump’s latest criticism of Europe and its leaders.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Trump slams ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe

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Trump slams ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe
Trump's relationship with Europe is lacking warmth and approaching permafrost.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Trump gives $12bn aid to US farmers and lifts ban on AI chips for China

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Trump gives $12bn aid to US farmers and lifts ban on AI chips for China
President Trump has been an enthusiastic exponent of tariffs but in the last 24 hours he's shifted position to deal with some of the economic side effects of his protectionism.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Review condemns scale of ‘unacceptable’ NHS maternity care

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Review condemns scale of ‘unacceptable’ NHS maternity care
In a report described as 'reflections and initial impressions', Baroness Valerie Amos, who is leading the investigation into England's maternity services, said that nothing could have prepared her for...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Stakeknife: UK government urged to confirm identity of IRA spy

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Stakeknife: UK government urged to confirm identity of IRA spy
A final report into an army spy known as 'Stakeknife' operating in the IRA during the Troubles, claims MI5 concealed  what it knew about the spy.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Grooming Gangs Inquiry process ‘decorated with survivors’, says Lucia Rae

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Grooming Gangs Inquiry process ‘decorated with survivors’, says Lucia Rae
We speak to Lucia Rae, in Oldham, an advocate for child sexual exploitation survivors
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December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips defends grooming inquiry process

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Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips defends grooming inquiry process
We spoke to Jess Phillips who helped create the inquiry but whose position was called into question by some of the women who were on the inquiry's survivor liaison panel.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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New chair of grooming gangs inquiry announced after chaos

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New chair of grooming gangs inquiry announced after chaos
The national inquiry into grooming gangs will be chaired by former children’s commissioner and Labour-appointed peer Anne Longfield.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The company found itself at the centre of the US-China tech war but is now able to sell its advanced chips to Beijing with Trump’s administration getting a 25% cut, writes @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social

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Nvidia: Why Trump has lifted America’s ban on selling AI chips to China
The company found itself at the centre of the US-China tech war but is now able to sell its advanced chips to Beijing with Trump’s administration getting a 25% cut, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Andrej Babiš stood for election on a Trump-inspired ‘Czechia first’ platform that has worried Ukraine and the European Union.

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Trump-inspired billionaire appointed Czech PM
Andrej Babiš stood for election on a Trump-inspired ‘Czechia first’ platform that has worried Ukraine and the European Union.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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In our latest The FourSight newsletter, Kiran Moodley investigates war crimes accusations facing the Trump administration, after a series of deadly strikes on drug boats coming from Venezuela.
Venezuela: Is the US committing war crimes?
In our latest The FourSight newsletter, Kiran Moodley investigates war crimes accusations facing the Trump administration, after a series of deadly strikes on drug boats coming from Venezuela.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Deep sea mining has ‘devastating’ impact on biodiversity
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Deep sea mining has ‘devastating’ impact on biodiversity
A landmark report into how deep sea mining could affect biodiversity on the sea floor has found that almost 40% of creatures in the immediate seabed area were lost in the tracks of mining machines.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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What impact will the Netflix Warner Bros deal have?
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What impact will the Netflix Warner Bros deal have?
The world's biggest streaming service Netflix has agreed to buy the Warner Brothers Discovery film and TV studio business - in a £54 billion deal.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Those words ‘can’t be uttered without malice’ – Holocaust survivor on Farage antisemitism allegations
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Those words ‘can’t be uttered without malice’ – Holocaust survivor on Farage antisemitism allegations
One of the people who signed that letter to Mr Farage is Agnes Kaposi, an engineer and author who survived the Debrecen ghetto and labour camps in Austria.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Holocaust survivors urge Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic remarks
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Holocaust survivors urge Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic remarks
A group of 11 Holocaust survivors have written to the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage - calling on him to apologise over alleged antisemitic and racist abuse while he was at school.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Children living in poverty ‘more likely to be ill later in life’ – Work and Pensions Secretary
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Children living in poverty ‘more likely to be ill later in life’ – Work and Pensions Secretary
We spoke to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Pat McFadden.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Labour launches strategy to tackle child poverty in the UK
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Labour launches strategy to tackle child poverty in the UK
The Government has launched its strategy to tackle child poverty - as Sir Keir Starmer described it as a "huge barrier to potential" for young people.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Trump facing criticism over xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants
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Trump facing criticism over xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants
President Trump has been facing criticism over his xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants in Minnesota - as the state governor Tim Waltz warned that kind of rhetoric "creates danger" and could le...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Trump: Fifa peace prize ‘one of the greatest honour of my life’
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Trump: Fifa peace prize ‘one of the greatest honour of my life’
President Trump has described the FIFA peace prize as "truly one of the great honours of my life".
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December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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In this week’s Your Week In 4, we feature Putin's visit to India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave Moscow’s main man a publicly warm and effusive welcome.

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Russia's India alliance | Organised 'waste crime' | Grief in Hong Kong | Trump's drug trafficker pardon
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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The care regulator has been accused of failing to act on multiple warnings about a care home manager who faked a resident’s will to steal her estate, Channel 4 News can reveal.

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Exclusive: Watchdog accused of failing to act over repeated warnings about fraudster care manager
Channel 4 News has identified at least seven complaints to the CQC about the alleged behaviour of Slaney-Summers across four different care homes, spanning 2014 to 2021.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🗣️ “If she was given the proper treatment, which you would get in a mental health facility or even out in the community, if she was monitored on probation, she would still be alive.”

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Staggering scale of self-inflicted deaths among female prisoners
New report highlights repeated failures to “believe women in distress” and “malfunctioning prison processes” are costing lives, writes Jackie Long.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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📩 Read our latest TrumpWorld newsletter from Anushka Asthana:
Trump’s crackdown leaves immigrant communities fearful
The US President has ordered ICE to target Minnesota’s large Somali community, as his administration intensifies its scrutiny of immigrants in the country, writes Anushka Asthana.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM